As we enter Thanksgiving we look ahead to the family gatherings, the good food, and time of reflection. I think we often find ourselves only bringing ourselves into the mindset of being thankful and evaluating our lives to see what we have to be thankful for on Thanksgiving Day. Taking a personal inventory of what we have been blessed with instead of making it an everyday habit to look and send prayers of thankfulness to God for what we have. Just like Paul said in the opening verse “Give thanks in all circumstances…” not just on thanksgiving, not just when things are good, but in all circumstances making it an enduring mindset. There is plenty to be thankful for, on the topic of Thanksgiving dinner we can be thankful for pants that are getting a little too tight, which means we have plenty of food. We could even be thankful for paying taxes because that means two different things, one is that we are employed! The other would be that by paying taxes to the United States government means we get the privilege of living in the world’s superpower!